..........I'm right..........

30hr drive

2006-09-02T23:30:00.000-06:00

So as most of you don't know, i worked at a camp oustide edmonton this summer. It finished the 28th of August. During the summer i got this great idea, that I should drop some of my friends off in winnipeg on the way to school at the cport. For those of you who don't know, winnipeg is clearly not on the way, but whatever, roadtrips are awesome. Especially in my car and by awesome i clearly mean dangeresque. In total i spent about 34 hours of straight driving awesomeness and by the end of it i was up for over 40. Now, on to the story. My friend D-rock was driving and we were about 30 mins away from Yorkton which is officially the most useless town in Saskatchewan. I had looked over and seen this fire, So I told Drock, hey we should go check it out, assuming the fire dept would be there since we seen teh flames over the treeline from teh highway. As we pull off the highway into this sleepy little town i notice that it's pretty quiet, i got out and ran around the corner. House on fire. check. Randomn barrels of gas and keresone near burning house and next house. check. fire dept. chec...no wait not there. local citizens with water pails? Nope, there weren't even any boyscouts dixi cups. It was 2:30 am, and as we later realized the average age of the town was 67ish i guessi could understand it.... Anyways I ran up to the house next to the inferno and woke them up and got them out. (poi. they immeaditely gave me their car keys to move their car) Anyways we made sure they got out of their house as the flames now had consumed the other house completely, the couple informed us luckily that house had been abandoned for years. We then proceeded to wake up the rest of the block as there were big ashes flying everywhere due to the wind and coincidentally the fire flying everywhere and starting fires on the next street. We called 911 as soon as we got there, adn their stellar response time was approx. 30 mins. Awesome. Why even bother calling. Anyways, so basically we took charge of the scene and had to keep everyone away from the spectacle as there was a natural gas supply to the couples trailer. About twenty minutes after we got there and woke up the older couple there house was absolutely engulfed with flames. It eventually burned completely to the ground, both the empty house and the older couples. The man, Mike, who owned the trailer also lost a camper, and a new chevy he bought himself for retirement. He also lost his house two years ago to fire, so he was in pretty severe shock. Eventually the FD showed up and watered the neighbourhood down as the two buildings finished burning to the gournd. Oh yeah and the water truck that was en route from somewhere else, ran out of gas and never showed. One must feel really safe in rural sask. Not only is the response time slower than Paris Hilton answering a question with more than six words, but either the help coming isn't smart enough to gas up, can't afford to gas up, or there really wasn't a water truck. So, that was pretty exciting, well about as exciting one might think. Also i have some pics i'll be posting soon hopefully of things burning

peace

chuck norris

2006-03-12T12:50:00.000-06:00

funny email going around containing facts about chuck norris.

1.Guns don't kill people, Chuck Norris kills people
2.Chuck Norris sleeps with a night light, not because he is afraid of the dark,
but because the dark is afraid of Churck Norris
3.Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.
4.There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of animals Chuck Norris allows
to live.
5.Chuck Norris is my homeboy
6. When Chuck Norris falls in the water, he doesn't get wet, the water gets
Chuck Norris
7.Chuck Norris doesn't write books. The words assemble themselves out of fear.
8.Chuck Norris can believe it's not butter.
9.The grass is always greener on the other side, unless Chuck Norris has been
there, in which case it's soaked in blood and tears.
10. There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Chuck Norris lives in Oklahoma.
11. Some people wear Superman pajamas. Superman wears Chuck Norris pajamas.
12.When Bruce Banner gets mad, he turns into the Hulk. When the Hulk gets mad, he turns into Chuck Norris.

No way, Jose?

2006-03-09T11:25:00.000-06:00

I cannot believe MTL traded Theo!! At first, i was mostly in shock,because first of all he's been around for 10 yrs, secondly, the way he's played this season, who would want him,and thirdly he's injured, potentially done for the season. As i've been mulling this over, I checked out Abieshers stats, and statisically he has a better record, overall theodore is a bunch of games under .500, 3 games under this season, while abiesher is several games over .500. What was most confusing i thought mtl's back up was doing ok, 3-1-1 after the break, 3 SO's in 8 games. Plus his back up Danis has looked ok in a few starts including a SO in his first NHL game. Also there is a 3.5 million dollar difference in salaries so that is an upside for montreal, maybe montreal is going to swing another deal and send abeisher to another team. As long as we don't get Todberculosis i'll be ok.

Pierre Mcqueer...i mean Macguire......

2006-01-05T16:33:00.000-06:00

For those of you who do not know this man, count your self amongst the elect. For those of us who watch sports have almost all be exposed to this moron. Now, i could easily fill pages with the idiotic stuff this guy says. Not to mention he reminds me of a bald pee wee herman, if not in looks at persona. Here are some of his quotes feel free to post more. The hockey news, in it's latest issue says that some may find Pierre too loud....apparently they had run out of space for the other thirty to fourty adjectives the general(intelligent) population would have used as well.

1. It was a double dion, a double dion. this occured during last year world Jr's, phaneuf appeard to hit two players simulateously, Pierre appeared to repeat this phrase 27 and a half times.
2. The Russians are going down quicker than free beer at a frat party. Then again, so do yo pierre so do you.
3. Look at that stretch pass!
4. I like men
5. and the puck squirts out of their zone again.
6. I prefer man to man coverage.
7. I also wear dresses.

TenThings that suck about t.v. programming

2005-12-25T21:59:00.000-06:00

10. Curling, yes i realize i have offended the entire province of Manitoba, and I apologize to both of you profusely. But still, curling is often on tsn when there is a perfectly good hockey game on t.v. I'd rather watch paul karyia in Nashville than randy furby and his rocks.

9. Dog shows-if i wanted to see a dog show i'd drive to saskatoon.

8. CBC-worst station ever. Only redeeming value is Hockey Night in Canada. CBC should drop all of it's docu-drama crap quicker than Kobe dropped two million on a "I'm a dirty manwhore, but will you still forgive me" diamond ring for his wife. CBC should play only hockey and the news...when hockey isn't on. During the off season, they should play other sports, and classic games.

7. Martha Stewart. she belongs in prison for being so frickin annoying. her and Oprah.

6. Dr. I'm should follow my own diets Fill. This guy drives me around the bend. The only thing worse than Dr.Phil is his fan club..........and the next five things.

5.Micheal Moore. I know he's not really on Prime time, or vocal any more since bush got re-elected, and he went to fat camp, and america found out he was a jackass. Maybe he got hit by a bus, which would suck for the bus.

4. Remember Canada's late night t.v. show, Mike Bullard man that guy was annoying, he gets number four out of sheer foolishness. I remember him always having terrible jokes he could barely read of the cue sheets because he was to lazy to get glasses. Mike Bullard is to funny what Micheal Jackson is to childcare.

3. chick sports reporters. I was watching football and this sideline reporter woman commented twice about uniforms being stylish. Who really wants to hear about how Nevada states football teams outfit are classy? With all due respect, i have yet to encounter a womans sportscaster who did a good enough job where i didn't notice that she was in fact not man.

2. Spelling Bee's. I don't care how many t's kat has, spelling bee's are not a sport and should never be shown on a sports network. TSN the sports network. Now the subject of that phrase is Network which can be read as t.v. station. sports is the predicate noun, which means it's telling you something about the subject. ie. it's a SPORTS station. During the lockout poker was on all the sports channels, also not a sport but close than teh spelling bee. Also the spelling bee play by blay chick stated "winning the spelling bee is the hardest feat to accomplish in sports." right. I can see the validity in her point. Because an 82 game hockey season is easy, because the NFL and CFl play flag football. Bold statements i think can be hilarious, but not when you say them to validate your career as a spelling bee announcer... i mean seriouisly "Well Jim, not only did he spell that word correctly, have you seen his shoes?"

P.E.T.A.......and why they suck.

2005-11-18T11:43:00.000-06:00

For those of you who don't know, P.E.T.A. stands for " People for the ethical treatment of animals. This is the organization that implies that animals have the same basic value and rights as humans.
http://www.goveg.com/f-top10turkeys.asp on this site, peta gives you ten "solid" reasons why it's foul to eat fowl.

Their number one reason is that they are "smart animals with personality and character" .....and yet they still taste great with gravy.

Also PETA uses celebrity quotes to promote the ethical treatment of animals.

Avril Lavigne Goes Vegan"I’m on a vegan diet, I do yoga every day, I work out, I’m totally spiritual ..." (Calgary Sun) Even changing her skater boy song to read "he's just a carnivore, so i said see ya later boy".......

Diane Sawyer on the Running of the BullsAfter viewing footage of this year’s Running of the Bulls: “They should just stop this event. They should just stop it.” (Good Morning America) Wow thanks Diane

Ricky Williams: "i wouldn't eat a chicken if it dropped dead in front of me holding a sign saying "eat me". ....Ricky is the man who shunned a 7million dollar a year contract to smoke weed. I'm not so sure he could read the paper let alone a sign held up by a dead chicken.

and no tofu isn't the same, unless the only meat product you ever encountered tasted like 2nd hand vomit.

Bottom line, PETA=LAME and STEAKS=Awesome

So what if they keep calves in a box for most of their lives? Have you had veal? Definitely worth it.

seriously people get off the peta train. We are on the top of the food chain for a reason.

Jesus is NOT your homeboy

2005-10-14T00:04:00.000-06:00

Jesus is defined as several things throughout scripture, king of kings, prince of peace, immanuel, his name means annointed one, he's referred to as a messiah son of man, son of God. In the Gospel of John Jesus tells a crowd of Jewish leaders and common folk that "before Abraham was, I am" In John 14:6 Jesus delcares himself to be the way the truth and the life. Jesus walked on water, healed the sick and raised the dead. Nowhere does it suggest that Jesus is in fact your homeboy. Your homeboy is the guy who spots you cash when you need it, or lends you his ride when yours is busted. Jesus, is in fact the guy who died for you sins, and paid a price which we are/were unable to. Is Christ your friend? Yes. Does Jesus care about smaller things, probably. Was Jesus a white dude passing out peace signs? most certainly not. Christ is messiah. He is essentially how we approach the father. Christ is approachable for sure. But, he is God. He is holy. We do not equal holy, not even a little bit.

i'll admit the shirt is funny, but at some point begrudgingly or not you need to draw the line. None of your "homeboys" have or will die for your sins, perhaps they may die because of you.........

p.s. Jesus was Jewish and spoke aramaic, so chances are his homeboys were not from white suburbia, and he would not know what a homeboy was.

guitar PLAYERS

2005-09-19T11:37:00.000-06:00

Now, I have nothing against guitar players, since some of my best friends are guitar players. My issues lies with guitar PLAYERS(chach)
Again, I have no problem with guitar players, in fact i'm learning(slowly) to play. However, it becomes a problem when all the three chord wonders begin to congregate in high traffic areas and assualt my ears with their best john mayer/dave matthews/iggy pop version of Awesome God or blessed be your name or whatever other song. Mayer and matthews are very popular for more than a few reasons, not the least of which are, a) they have a song selection that is greater than 2, b)they are musicians c) people pay them to play

Now , chach's can be found just about anywhere these days, playing there guitars in hope to serenade the freshman girls into thinking that because they can play guitar(never more than three chords) and loosely know the words to Awesome God they are meant to be together forever, atleast forever in the sense for a semeseter, and by semester i mean week. Also what's funny about chach's is that they'll be playing and trying to make eye contact with girls, the funny part is, that most of these guys are not good enough to look up and keep changing chords. So as they finally make eye contact they go from a G minor to a beet red because all of a sudden their skills have fled the scene.

Chach's shouldn't be limited to musicians, anyone can be a chach, the only requirement is nominal to no skill in an area of interest(sports etc) and use that skill in attempt to pick up freshmen.(chach's are not effective on upperclassmen, or anyone capable of feeding/dressing themselves for that matter) Also common here at school are jock chach's playing with their shirts off constantly, but only in high traffic areas, in between classes. My friend has a paintball gun that says topless jock chach's can still scream like school girls.

So, if you have a nominal skill, keep it to yourself, it's embarassing .

telemarketer

2005-09-17T16:17:00.000-06:00

so, apparently not returning modems to sasktel four or five months late is not a good thing. It will in fact get you a 177 dollar fine and put on a low class collections list. So, i had called sasktel earlier this month to discuss said 177 dollar fine. After chatting with the dude from sasktel he said if i brought the modem back in the next few days he would make sure the fine would be squared away. So that was sweet. I returned and in fact the charge was dropped from my account. However sasktel neglected to pass this information on to their little collecting friends. i recieved a phone call from this lady yesterday or so and it went like this:

lady: hi i'm calling for brian campbell
Brian:that's me.
Lady: hi brian i work for...(some collections agency in a terribly dead end job) and you apparently have a phone that belongs to sasktel and you should bring it back.
Brian: No I don't.
Lady: Yes, yes you do.
Brian: No, i'm sorry ma'am but I got my phone from walmart not sasktel
Lady: pause........It says here you have one, so you probably do.
Brian: no pause......It could say i have a million dollars too. but i promise you i don't have either.
Lady: longer pause. You don't have a phone from sasktel?
Brian: I've never had a phone from sasktel.
Lady: But it says here....
Brian: I did however have a modem over due for 4 months, but i returned that awhile ago.
Lady: loud sigh. oh. do you have a recipt them proving you returned it.
Brian: Yes
Lady: Thank you for your time.......sir.
Brian: laughing, nooo problem

The update on Mike moore

2005-09-15T22:08:00.000-06:00

Hasn't it been a long time since anyone has heard from moore, not that i'm complaining mind you, just curious about his whereabouts. So after some indepth research(read googled him) i found this link.

http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/less_moore/
two words: Fat Farm
two more words: Good luck.

Another Camp Story

2005-09-15T21:53:00.000-06:00

So, I cannot remember when exactly this incident took place, it was early in the summer, and now, well, it's not. So, during this particular week i was program staff, meaning not counselling, just teaching a few skills and that's it. So, wednesday night was the program staff's day off. Now this night was going to be even better than the usual because my friend brought his laptop into our cabin and we had planned on watching some Corner Gas. This would work because all campers were on their sleep out night. So after about two episodes three of four of the cabin staff came back.

Us: Hey, bathroom break there ladies???
Them(scowling): no it's too cold.
US: ahhh muffin. So, bring the whole cabin back too?
Them: No, they are still out there.
Us: So lemme get this straight, you three, being staff and all, deemed it to cold to sleep outside and left one staff and fourteen kids out there.
Them: Yeah.
Us: Awesome.........
Them: So, are you guys gonna shut that movie off now so we can get some sleep.
Us: ummm yeah, we're shutting it down right now. (shutting off movie)
Them: No seriously, shut it off, we are really tired.
Us: Ummmm ok.... we are shutting it down.
Them: seriously, we are really tired.
Us.......Brian: Whatever........shrugs

1 hour passes, this "tired" staff spend this time talking loudly over a game of cards with all the lights on.

At this point i was discussing the events that had just transpired with my friend, i had described the events like this

You know, what happened here tonight is like this: pretend you're seven years old again, it's christmas eve you've managed to finally overcome the anticipation of the evening. It's three a.m. you feel a hand on your shoulder, it's your mom. She wakes you up, leans over and whispers these four words : THERE IS NO SANTA CLAUSE BILLY...........

Camp 1

2005-07-08T21:10:00.000-06:00

The camp i work at is for mainly under privilidged kids who either come from shattered homes or group homes ect ect. First off, being a camp counsellor in this particular enviroment is both awesome and challenging. Awesome in the sense i'm not dealing with a bunch of snotty nosed christian kids(i love them too) but tiring in the sense it's a 24hr a day job for six days a week. I get roughly an hour off everyday.

So, this week I had nine kids in my cabin with another counsellor and myself in charge. Now, nine kids isn't a ton. But, five of the nine are kids who need one to one attention. So we had one camper who i'll refer to as "josh" because that's his name. Josh snuck under our radar the first night by disguising him self as a mild mannered averaged kid. much to our chagrin the real josh appeared the next day. Day two seen josh throw more tantrums than roger clemens does fastballs. We thought it would be a good idea for everyone to be quiet at lights out, he thought it would be better to cluck like a chicken for ten minutes straight. We thought it would be good for him to stop, he thought it would be better to freak out and throw things. He also thought it would be fun to run outside at 11pm. The next day we thought a devotional time would be good, he thought punching a kid in the face was a slight improvement. The next night we did a cook out supper in the woods and all the kids were loving the outdoors action, because they are all city kids so this was really cool. We thought it was cool for them to build a fort, Josh loved the idea of hitting a kid in the stomach with a grapefruit sized rock. What he thought would top that was when he push a 7 foot log(8 inches thick) on top of another camper. This is just a small portion of the week. But I must run b/c i am on dial up. :S

The final update?

2005-06-23T15:48:00.000-06:00

Ok folks the last three days in the life of brian have been hectic for me. That's actually an understatement. I've been busier getting things together than America has been inventing reasons to invade Iraq...(i kid, i kid) So, here's the scoop, currently i live in regina, but that tenure is drawing to a fast fast close. Over the last 48 hours, i applied,got interviewed and hired for a job at Brightwood Ranch in Alberta. Apparently it is an hour west of Edmonton and training starts tomorrow. Yup. Tomorrow. I leave in roughly 14 hours, I'm not even sure what town i'm going to. Just gonna head west. For 11 hrs. plus getting lost time. so 15 hrs. plus eating time. 19 hrs.plus forgot my gas gauge doesn't work walking time. 27 hours. Showing up to camp late, unshaven, unkempt, but somehow still employed priceless for everything else there is credit cards, lines of credit,payday loans and pawnshops. So yeah. I'm going to be spending the next two months working at this camp, which i am unbelievabley(or perhaps very believalbly) then, wait for it, wait for it..........................returning to briercrest. that's right. back into the vacuum i swear i'll avoid but somehow never do. Considering what ends up happening when i try to avoid briercrest ie this camp and last years hitch hike across most of canada, i don't see me changing my ways anytime soon.

Remember Stay classy San diego and never forget When in Rome..........

yeah.

2005-06-13T23:15:00.000-06:00

Terrible day today. Well, perhaps not terrible, but crappy enough. First of all it started at 5:30 am. yep thaaaat's right. then i get to work to find out that I managed to make a lot of mistakes on friday, which for the record does not make for a very good monday. So after spending the day getting reminded of how terrible I am at my job that i've worked at for an amazing three days. awesome. The other day i answer the phone, and there's that pause, you know, the pause that occurs every time a telemarketer calls, so I wait to tell them i don't care what percentage they can give me on a credit card. So i wait, ,and wait this message comes on, You are about to recieve a very important phone call, please hold. What the frig??!? You call me to put me on hold. If you don't have enough operators to make a call, why are you calling me. So, I held of course, only for someone to ask me a series of questions that i could not understand because of the speakers accent. So, this important phone call fell by the wayside. Oh, my trainer at work, for those of you that have seen snatch, is a female version of bricktop. Also awesome. Days like today only push me further to just screw it all and enlist in the army. ai yi yi. anyways i'm tired and mostly incoherent. so i'm out.

spam mail

2005-06-10T16:27:00.000-06:00

things i don't like

2. Spam mail. It's ridiculous for a number of reasons. One being just how freaking annoying it is, and secondly, how little we are really able to do anything about it. I mean we have junk mail folders, but really what good are they, when we have to go through it anyways to see if any legit mail ended up there. I mean how hard can it be to make a computer program that can differentiate between a legit email address and "frEeMOneys4u". I mean seriously it's retarded. I mean who even reads spam mail. Do people actually say "oh, honey we got another email from our good friend alkjsdfalkjd@risenshine.org again. Or, honey, someone wants to help us lower our debt, isn't that kind, all i have to do is send them my creditcard number, expiry date and pin number, what a deal! Spam is ridiculous, i'm glad that the government is finally charging people who own these spam companies. and by the government, i mean america's govt. because here in Canada, we don't take stands, we're too lazy and apathetic. Sometimes the states goes overboard, but alteast they aren't borderline comatose like us.

started one of those "job" things

2005-06-09T13:14:00.000-06:00

So, yesterday, i finally started work. Yes, i know, it definitely interrupted my six week long vacation. Oddly enough i am not terribly dissappointed. So yesterday consisted of me getting up at 6:45(brutal) because i have not woken up that early since brian mulroney was prime minister. So I get work at 7:30, get a brief tour of the essentials, washroom, smoke room, cafeteria, fire exits ect. Then it's off to the mail line. There i spend two hours bagging orders. Not very interesting unfortunately. However it did make me wonder why on earth people bought some of the clothes that they did.....*shudder* Then it's coffee break time, i spend this meandering around the warehouse because i don't know anyone and my people meeting skills are not good. So, after break, we clean up the mail line, then we are off to do returns. Now, this is were i discover, that whatever the most common item sent out, is generally the most common item sent back. I spend until lunch putting returns on the shelves. Now there are rules for doing this. 1. no more than five pieces of clothing on a rack. 2. long items bottom rack shorter items top rack. 3. All five items must be a different color. Awesome. er wait. not awesome because on the return racks were 30 pink dresses 15 black,3 red, and 3 yellow.... Most bins are not empty, which would be much easier. so i spent a lot of time trying to find a spot for everyhting. I did this for the remainder of the day, I'm a little concerned though, because at the end of the day i found myself muttering "If only I had a red skirt to go with this blue blazer i would be all set..."
So, i guess one can say i spent the whole day in womans clothing......

Shaq really does suck

2005-06-04T23:23:00.000-06:00

detroit 91 miami 66
They lost again without wade. Shaq is not an integral part of the heat, shaq is really only an integral part of his own ego........

10 Reasons why people hate Christianity

2005-06-04T13:44:00.000-06:00

Disclaimer: This article is soley my opinion not meant to be taken as the equivelant to the Gospel. I am a christian for the record albeit a terrible one.

10. While there are some exceptions, in general our music is not as good, and to me it seems ok to demand lower standards and have lower expectations.

9.Sports. Has anyone played with christian athletes, again, there seems to be an acceptance for mediocrity. Oh, it's all right we lose every game, have terrible tempers and no self control, I obviously love Jesus.......right.

8. Micheal W Smith.........need I say more

7. Churches can become a members only club. I'M NOT SAYING EVERY CHURCH IS. People often do not feel welcome and often feel alienated because they are not aware of the often existence of the unwritten social rules. Some churches do an excellent job at making people feel welcome, however as a whole, i , and others see this as an area for vast improvement. There is a book by Phillip Yancey called "what's so amazing about grace" one of the quotes goes like this "it's easier as a homosexual to get sex on the street than a hug in a church.

6. Where is the balance between legalism and grace?
Yes legalism is bad, but so is autonomy(self-law) . As christians i feel that we have not found this balance yet. Where grace should be legalism reigns, and where we need to be a little more firm and structured we lack the ability to be just that. People feel that the church dislikes the sin, but hates the sinners. This is not just my opinion but people who have been hurt by the church.

5. i googled the term "purchase christian" just to see how many websites sell christian whatever, 8.9 million. Mormonism, which i think is the fastest growing religion and will be considered a world religion fairly soon, had 460,000 results, buddhism had 509,000 results. Not that this proves anything. But seriously, we've all seen the result of the christian trend machine. we take what the world has douse it with sanctification and resell it as our own. for an excellent read about this go to : http://www.klife.com/resources/staff/media/GQ-WWJD.html
here's a quote from the article:
If a person is going to waste his life cranking the stereo, clicking the remote, reading paperback pulp and chasing diet fads, he may as well save his soul while he's at it. Holy living no longer requires self-denial. On the Ark, every mass diversion has been cloned, from Internet news sites to MTV to action movies, and it's possible to live inside the spirit, without unplugging oneself from modern life, twenty-four hours a day.

4. Televangelists. Again i'm not talking about the exceptions to this rule, because there are some. I'm talking about the ones who spend ten minutes on the sermon and fifty on how God will bless you quicker by "sowing" into their ministry. A lot could be said about the corruptness in this area, but what good will it do.

3.A few rotten apples..............
It's sad that christianity gets misrepresented far too often by the fanatical. Like the people who show up at abortion clinics and ect. You know the ones with the signs that say Jesus hates baby killers, or the ones that show up at gay pride parades with signs like God hates fags. These are the "christians" whose prefer terrevanglism to building relationships and getting to know people.

2. I believe people do not trust or like the church because we are seen as fake. We as a whole need to find a better balance between being real and still being different. Far too often people do not see the difference in our lives than theirs.Again, this is just my opinion based on what i have seen and experienced.

1. Tacky bible tracts.
Again, here it seems christianity falls victim to shallow standards. Most of us have seen them. You know, those little pieces of paper tucked away in library books, left on restaraunt tables. What's worse than tracts, is when christians leave a tip, but instead of real coin they leave fake coin with scripture on it. I'm sure employees love that. Christians in general are terrible tippers. Anyways, we've all seen these tracts left randomly about in public places. For me, the worst one I've ever seen was a photocopy of a fake 100 dollar bill, with the phrase "100 dollars won't get you much on earth anymore, but it certainly won't get you anywhere in God's kingdom" .......lamelamelame. No contact information, no record of who put it there, not even a scripture reference in case you did want to know more. I mean that's pretty effective. a photocopy of a fake 100 dollar bill. impressive. must have taken five six minutes to think that up. I can imagine the person who planted that sitting across the way in a tim hortons, staking out their evangelism victim, then silently patting themselves on the back on another successful day of telling someone about Jesus...............

Ohhhhh Sylvia

2005-05-25T15:53:00.000-06:00

I have decided that i'm going to make a list of people or things i don't like, not much different that what i'm already doing, except i'm going to add numbers!!!!

1. Slyvia the spirit contactor person thingy

As i was channel surfing this morning i came across a show called montel or something like that and this chick sylvia was on it. And apparently Sylvia has paranormal powers. So she was sending messages to people on behalf of their dead loved ones. I didn't catch the whole show, just the last fifteen minutes or so, which interestingly enough was a quesion period. One question was
Woman: Ummmmm Sylvia do you see a career change in my future?
Sylvia: No (wow that was really insightful)
Woman #2 Both of my sons are gone, are any of them speaking to me
Sylvia: The darker of the two says he makes noises.
Woman # 2 Thank you. (sits down)
Woman #3 Sylvia, i just finished a complete life overhaul did i miss anything
Sylvia: No, your heart problems are because of stress( only legitimateesq answer, although you could visually guess the reason for her life overhaul)

Something else that she said i found really interesting. She was talking about her sensitivity to the spirit world and gave an example, by retelling a story that occured when she was off lecturing to opened minded intellectuals(read grieving vulnreable people). This incident occured the day the pope died. At roughly 9:20 am during her lecture she said her spirit guide spoke to her and she went on to name the spirit guide, which i won't bother repeating his name for a number of reasons, the least of which it's not worth the effort. The spirit guide then (allegedly)communicated to her that " We have the pope" . Personally, I know that there is a spiritual realm and that in fact one can interact with it, as far as spirit guides go, i'd rather have a root canal. According to my personal views, these spirit guides are demons, who would love to guide your spirit all right. Then i was thinking so if this event did occur, then what are the ramifications of that phrase "We have the pope" Now, that day the pope did not die for another several hours, but her claim was he crossed over when her guide delivered the message. So, if one could speculate on said ramifications they would not be good. Needless to say spirit guides are bound to now standard of morality, and I would venture that it is rather quite the opposite.
This show reminded how people try to use the spiritual realm for power.

This slyvia women was vague in all of her responses to the questions. The funniest part is, is that her and her son, have a book coming out about animals,called "pets and the other side" or something like that. Worst ever. I mean, it's bad enough she's profiting off of peoples warped grieving process but this is ridiculous. I mean, she can't tell what animals are saying when they are alive, what the hell makes her think they talk to her when they die? People like her make me angry. Do i believe in the possibility for her to communicate with the spirit world? Yes, absolutely. Do i think she's communicating with peoples loved ones. No, I don't. I think people like her are attracted to the power of the occult and blend it with verbal manipulation to make a lot of money.

Future plans

2005-05-24T16:33:00.000-06:00

Well over the last few weeks/month or so since school has been out i've been thinking a lot about whether or not to return in the fall. After a lot of thought I realized that I am not really sure what i want to do with the rest of my life and that college coincedentally is not a cheap place to find that out. So I will be living and working(eventually) in regina for awhile a year or two and see what happens i guess. and just go from there i guess is the plan. So there's approximitaly where things are currently. Besides who needs this 'education' everyone keeps ranting about.

Actors should not, repeat not be allowed to speak on politics.....unless your name is Gov. Arnold

2005-05-24T03:04:00.000-06:00

Ok, so I was reading a back issue of The Rolling Stone, and it was an issue printed during the election/iraq war/micheal "i'm a huge loser" moore phase. And the vast majority of artists were crying out against the war and bush and put on a tour against him and such. now, everyone has a right to an opinion, but actors and musicians should seriously consider shutting the hell up sometime. Just because you are the flavor of the week and blah blah blah does not mean the world needs to hear what you have to say. Yes, some actor/musicians are intelligent and have credible things to say. But, personally when i buy a cd i buy it because i like the music, and am not paying them to voice their opinions. This whole thing tends to skew reality. While they claim that they are informing the public and encouraging them to vote and voice THEIR OWN opinion in one commericial they are ranting about the tyranny of Bush in another using their influence to convince the masses. Convince them that the reason they should vote for bush is because bruce i'm so damn cool springsteen thinks it's a good idea, or Sean stuffy combs says i need to vote Kerry. Yes, I do in fact realize that I'm not american and have no say in the matter and it shouldn't theorhetically affect me. But seeming as it is a free country, I hate the fact that these people who live absolutely unrealistic lives who know nothing of the most part of blue collar anywhere, whose lives will be affected the least by privatized health care and gun control. If i could, i would have voted for Bush, and I personally support the war in Iraq and think that it is retarded that Canada did not assist America. Saddam Hussien was a terrorist, no, they didn't find any weapons of mass destruction, yes that sucks. Yes, good men died fighting in Iraq. But Saddam needed to be taken out of power. These stars talk of bush's tryanical ways, but usually these complaints are made from houses with more bathrooms then most of our homes have square footage. People who ride the crest of the wave of public obsession wield a dangerous tool that would best serve unused............................oh yeah, I hate Brittany Spears too.

Where Nicholas Cage went all wrong

2005-05-22T01:02:00.000-06:00

I'm not sure exactly why this happens but it seems that several action guys have dabbled in the family friendly movie section, which in some cases is A) out of their talent pool B) a waste of their said talent pool. The latter, I believe is the case for Nicholas Cage, I mean he has a done a lot of kick ass movies. The Rock, Con Air, gone in 6o seconds ect ect. Then comes National Treasure, wow. I'll spare you the summary suffice to say in hindsight Disney truly is for kids, except for maybe Remember the Titans. So many times it seemed like the actors wanted to swear, but couldn't. Instead they had to replace the swear word with some lame ass variation that was worse than anything i had endured at bible college........Also, why the hell did Bruce Willis do the movie the Kid a few years ago. I mean he is Bruce "Die hard" Willis, not Bruce " i'm a girly man who works for Disney" Willis, well at least he shouldn't be. It seems to be a trend, because Arnold has done similar films, even hulk hogan has done stupid kids flicks, although that might not be outside his talent pool perhaps the vocab contained in those scripts would better suit his mental capacity. Vin disiel is another guy who has an kid flick coming out soon some garbage about an ex seal turned baby sitter. From guns, cars, explosives and women, to diapers, soothers, minivans and who gives a damn. To me, it's kinda like when Jordan played a few games in the minors with the white sox, what the hell, where's the logic(i mean besides he's "mj" and he could do whatever he wanted) he was a terrible terrible baseball player, which should not have surprised him since most of his life was spent playing basketball. Sucsessful crossover athletes and actors are a rarity, and in most cases they should should stick to what their good at.

Nash Rules

2005-05-16T17:39:00.000-06:00

Dallas kept stoudamire wrapped up last night and it seemed very effective in shutting him down. They decided they'd rather nash shoot then get everyone going. Even though they lost Nash had a helluva performance pouring in 46 pts in 41 minutes played. The heat won their last two games in a row. Shaq provided no points from his floor seats..................

Traffic, construction zones, and why i am not to be trusted with directions.............

2005-05-16T16:45:00.000-06:00

So, after lounging around Regina for oh, let's say a few weeks/ a full month I finally gotten around to getting one of those "jobs" people keep talking about. I deemed this necessary after my unfortunate discovery that money in fact does not grow on trees. So, using my inherent job finding skills i quickly found employment at an unnamed call center.(when i say inherent job finding skills, i mean my room mates mother hooked me up with the job) So, I go to leave this morning for "orientation" first day of work so you do not want to show up late........apparently. So I set out, directions in hand and begin what should have been a simple ten minute drive to the call center. So i was following the directions(or so i thought) and looking for a hospital i was supposed to turn by. After five minutes i noticed two somewhat alarming things 1. Hospital signs were replaced by signs saying "holeinthewall" 34 km 2. City buildings where replaced with the cursed vast horizon of Sask. yep. that's right. sure did drive almost out of the city. 3.(a bonus) I also noticed my choice of venue was Victoria, and in hindsight this street was in no way shape or form found in my quaint set of directions. So needless to say I did manage to find my destination at ten fourty five, fifteen minutes late. Which was awesome. Then I proceeded to learn that you could not actually enter in the endearing process of "orientation" without an social insurance card. I know the number, one would suspect that would suffice, but oh no. They need the real mccoy. Which is currently in a storage room in the metropolis of Caronport. I could find a way out there, but it's less of a hassle to order a new one. I thought this morning was all for naught, I sat outside soaking in both the beautiful sunshine and the slightly less beautiful but more condoling scent of a captain black cigar. But apparently as it again turns out, when i get my new card, i still have a job, just in a different section, for slightly more money and better workload. So the moral of the story kids is : Money still doesn't grow on trees, and I have to get a damn job.

why shaq should only ever be an mvp in hot dog eating contest

2005-05-15T13:46:00.000-06:00

Ok, so if anyone follows sports they probably already know that steve nash won the NBA MVP in the closest voting in quite some time apparently. Now, the only person who made their opinion public in an article was some lame ass journalist for a paper in you guessed Miami.........
Now the columnist for the Miami herald Dan Lebetard whose last name i suspect is french for "the bastard" said Nash won because he was white and he was a skinny one dimensional basketball player and he stole it from Shaq. right. Becau8se we all know Shaq is definitely a five tool threat, well atleast at the buffet line he is. Remember all the games this season were shaq would use the pick and roll then step behind the arc and drain the three? No? Ok, remember how shaq would always drain those 17 foot j's? No? Fine, how about all those games where shaq would make sweet bounce passes to his powerforward in the paint.......No? Oh wait that's because Nash does all those things. Nash averaged 11.5(1st in nba highest since 95) assists per game and 16 points, Last year the suns were 29-53 this year they went 62-20, the third biggest turn around in history, (they were 2-5 when nash wasn't healthy) Big "Weasel" O'neal went 22.6 pts and 10.6(8th in NBa) rebs per game, which isn't terrible but NOT mvp stats that's for sure. Last year Miami finished with a 42-40 2nd in the atlantic division, the suns finished third last. Now this year they were the best team in the league. So betard, your right shaq is not a one dimensional player who scores all of his points in the paint and he is 70 percent free throw shooter..........yeah........

also to consider why i think Shaq is over rated....

1. His self proclaimed nickname "diesel" ....ironically enough wasn't diesel a white dude in the wwf, but that's ok he didn't beat shaq for mvp, probably just tied him for 2nd.
2.Nash can run the court, the last time shaq ran the ball he had to be immeaditely supplied with an oxygen mask, and some change to tip the cab driver.
3. dude is 7 feet tall and three hundred pounds and in decent shape, and still only put up 22/10.6 i'm sorry but at that size you should be more than the self proclaimed most dominant force in the Nba....
4. When Shaq was injured the heat went 6-3..........
5. Nash had had career highs in fg percentage, 3pt percentage and assists
6. Shaq had near career lows in mins played,ppg and his worst season in ft percentage....
ect ect ect

The best test will be if there is a heat suns final